{"id":5439,"date":"2013-05-15T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=5439"},"modified":"2013-05-14T17:13:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T21:13:47","slug":"county-extending-helping-hand-for-career-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=5439","title":{"rendered":"County extending helping hand for career transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><\/i><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0d0d0d; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Program aims to assist qualified unemployed, underemployed residents<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0d0d0d; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/22093342-300x207.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5440\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"22093342-300x207\" src=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/22093342-300x207.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a>A program designed to assist people in or approaching career transition will be held Friday at the Penn State Great Valley campus from 8:30 a.m. until noon, a county news release said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0d0d0d; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\"> &#8220;Job Search and You&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0will provide career assistance through the\u00a0Managing Your Career Transition<\/span><b style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">conferences provided by\u00a0Penn\u00a0State\u00a0Great Valley\u2019s Office of Continuing Professional Education. The event is being funded by the county and its Workforce Investment Board, the release said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">Attendance is free to all those who meet the eligibility requirements. Registration is required and can be done at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgps.psu.edu\/career-transition\/default.ashx\">www.sgps.psu.edu\/career-transition\/default.ashx<\/a>. To be eligible, a person must have lived in southeastern Pennsylvania for a year, be unemployed or underemployed, registered with PA\u00a0CareerLink, had prior employment with an income of more than $42,000 and an associate degree or higher education level, according to the release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">One session will be given by Patrick Bokovitz, director of the Chester County Department of Community Development and the Chester County Workforce Investment Board, on services available through the county. Presentations will also be made by service providers, and a\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">panel of human relations professionals will discuss their insights on the job search process including r\u00e9sum\u00e9 preparation, the job interview process, and other related topics.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Program aims to assist qualified unemployed, underemployed residents A program designed to assist people in or approaching career transition will be held Friday at the Penn State Great Valley campus from 8:30 a.m. until noon, a county news release said. &#8220;Job Search and You&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0will provide career assistance through the\u00a0Managing Your Career Transition\u00a0conferences provided by\u00a0Penn\u00a0State\u00a0Great Valley\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1176],"tags":[2135,20,2137,1173,2139,2136,2134,2138],"class_list":["post-5439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-business","tag-job-search-and-you","tag-chester-county","tag-chester-county-department-of-community-development","tag-chester-county-workforce-investment-board","tag-pa-careerlink","tag-patrick-bokovitz","tag-penn-state-great-valley","tag-penn-state-great-valleys-office-of-continuing-professional-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}